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1.1the Wallabiesinformal The Australian international rugby union team.

‘Wallabies fly-half Stephen Larkham has claimed Argentina will do "whatever it takes" to win the game on 10 October.’

Phrases

on the wallaby (track)

dated, informal (of a person) unemployed and having no fixed address.

‘during the Depression thousands of Australians went on the wallaby’

‘This would encourage them to get on the wallaby when they will surely find a job.’

‘That's the way to get this country back on its feet - by getting the poor back on their knees. Or on the wallaby.’

‘Not-working the river is a grand, unacknowledged tradition: from those carrying their swag on the wallaby with a Wagga blanket to these days of stashed polyester on corrugated Amcor or Visyboard.’

‘With the world rushing towards the Great Depression many old Diggers found themselves out of work, out of luck and out on the wallaby track.’

‘Swagmen and swagwomen tramped the country roads alone or in pairs in search of seasonal work, a situation referred to as ‘on the wallaby’.’

destitute, poverty-stricken, impoverished, indigent, penniless, insolvent, impecunious, ruined, pauperized, without a penny to one's name, without two farthings to rub together, without two pennies to rub together